Regina Bittner

Today, “education” is a central topic in the global field of art. The explicit question here: how to learn and teach art in the globalised world?

Regina Bittner will start the conference on Friday 5th August at 6.p.m. with a lecture about the topic „Schools of innovation: Bauhaus and Shantiniketan“

 
Bittner is head and deputy director of the Bauhaus Kolleg with a focus on international urban ethnography, cultural and architectural history of modernism and migration and heritage studies.

As “schools of innovation”, the state Bauhaus school in Weimar and the Shantiniketan World University in Calcutta shared the desire for educational reforms, which had been emerging worldwide from a critical view of civilisation and culture since the beginning of the 20th century. The idea was not merely a reform of the existing education system, but a new, comprehensive definition of the relation between education and culture, individual and society. The concepts for reform were wide-ranging; their common base was the idea that the purpose of education was to liberate human creativity and to restore the lost relation between manual skills and the acquisition of knowledge.

You can find further information right here: http://www.summeracademy.at/Global-Academy_411.html

Samiran Nandy, Untitled (Classes under mango trees in Shantiniketan), Copyright: Samiran Nandy, photo: German Literature Archive Marbach